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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having...
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Source: english...
Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long...
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Source: Back to Methuselah.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. ... rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up...
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are...
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill each other if it is not...
The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
Source: In...
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely...
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is...
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another...
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to...
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier...
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is...