A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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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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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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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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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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