If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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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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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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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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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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There 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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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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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