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" Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. "

George Bernard Shaw

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" 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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" We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. "

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" If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. "

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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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" An index is a great leveller. "

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" The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. "

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" Youth is wasted on the young. "

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" The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. "

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" You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. "

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" Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. "

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" We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. "

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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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" The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. "

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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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" She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. "

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" A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. "

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" Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. "

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