The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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