"Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money."
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"Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results."
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"The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death."
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"He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him"
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"He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders."
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"If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community"
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"When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well."
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"Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing."
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"If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven."
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"I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all."
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"What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898."
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"This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby."
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"What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity."
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"People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good."
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"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately"
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"If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers."
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"Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard."
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"If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things."
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"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
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"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it."
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