"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."
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"Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."
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"I work as my father drank."
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"Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning."
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
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"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
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"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."
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"We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class."
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"As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little."
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"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen."
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"I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit"
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"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."
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"The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them."
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"In the arts of peace Man is a bungler."
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