All great truths begin as blasphemies.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in 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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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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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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