"The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident."
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"During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox."
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"The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life."
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"A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future."
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"I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me."
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"The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served."
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"Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people."
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"A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise."
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"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated."
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"I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity."
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"The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud."
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"We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts."
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"If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there."
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"There is nothing in religion but fiction."
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"As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men."
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"There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in."
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"A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line"
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"We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems."
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"Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."
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