"Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?"
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"We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come."
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"Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven."
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"Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength."
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"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
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"Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!"
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"She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man."
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"What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults."
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"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
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"That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her."
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"The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching."
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"The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her."
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"Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?"
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"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."
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"Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop."
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"Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment."
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"You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer."
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"He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it."
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"If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases."
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"I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all."
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