Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPatriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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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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