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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same"
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children"
"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live"
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it"
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination"
"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo"
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it"
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation"
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence"
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire"
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt"
"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man"
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends"
"An index is a great leveller"
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven"
"Better never than late"
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world"
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic"
"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income"
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it"
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America"
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them"
"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it"
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week"
"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious"
"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics"
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough"
"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it"
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel"
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality"
"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"
"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist"
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed"
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself"
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it"
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular"
"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win"
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will"
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example"
"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters"
"If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves"
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation"
"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people"
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me"
"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements"
"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent"
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