The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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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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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
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