"There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes."
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"After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
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"All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct."
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"It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it."
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"I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain."
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"I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead."
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"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."
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"Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use."
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"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
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"Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
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"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong."
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