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" If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. "

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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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" It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. "

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" Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. "

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" The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. "

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" Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. "

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" The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. "

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" Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. "

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" What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. "

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" The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. "

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" Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. "

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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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