"You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly."
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"The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe."
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science."
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"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."
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"Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles."
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"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
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"The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand."
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"I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies."
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"Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes."
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"It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings."
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"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
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"A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up."
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"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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"Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree."
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"Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations."
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"Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher."
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