"Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society."
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"The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character."
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"No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization."
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"What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die."
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"A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another."
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"Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial."
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"Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee."
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"In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win."
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"There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran."
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"What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it."
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"When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman."
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"Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective."
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated."
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"Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing."
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"Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death."
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"The stock actor is a stage calamity"
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"Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy."
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"An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed."
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"Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time."
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