"You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them."
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"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
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"Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household."
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"Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality."
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"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization."
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"There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war."
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"Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing."
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"I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am."
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"English is the easiest language to speak badly."
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"It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having."
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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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"An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles."
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"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."
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"The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose."
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."
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"I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals."
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"Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."
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"Woman reduces us all to the common denominator."
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"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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