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"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."
"Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?"
"There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle."
"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."
"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
"Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap"
"Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting."
"Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation."
"Life is too short for men to take it seriously."
"But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things."
"People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them"
"It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid."
"It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something."
"Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in."
"Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time."
"Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people."
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it."
"Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers."
"Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with."
"There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles."