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" An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. "
George Bernard Shaw
Soul
Battle
Election
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" No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. "
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" Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. "
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" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "
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" All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. "
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" Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. "
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" We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. "
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" Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. "
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Something
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