"Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord."
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"It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters."
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"Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever."
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"Fear is choosing the safe course"
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"If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!"
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"I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other."
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"What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances."
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"All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness."
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"We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now"
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"I wish people would stop talking about my birthday."
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"If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done."
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"Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation."
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"An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general."
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"A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming."
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"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
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"I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw."
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"Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it."
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"There is only one universal passion fear."
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"Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real."
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"Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."
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