"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
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"Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men."
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"Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me."
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"As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be."
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"Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives"
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"I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else."
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"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus."
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"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul."
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"A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
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"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."
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"There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst."
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"Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him."
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"My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same."
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"The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed."
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"What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."
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"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
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"You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you."
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"Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter."
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