"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself."
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"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change"
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"If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces."
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"The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth."
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"Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less."
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"Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!"
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"Never repeat old grievances."
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"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood"
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"Whisky is liquid sunshine."
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"Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one."
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"People expect too much of one year and too little of ten."
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"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"All professions are conspiracies against the laity."
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"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice"
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"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"
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"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity."
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"It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will."
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