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" I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. "
George Bernard Shaw
Worth
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" I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. "
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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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" Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. "
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" Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. "
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" Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. "
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" We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. "
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Men
Never
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Lost
" I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. "
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I Am
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" Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. "
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Silence
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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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Believe
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" If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it. "
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Sea
People
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Business
People
" The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. "
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" Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? "
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