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| Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry. |
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| Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. |
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| Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. |
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| No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
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| No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. |
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| Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth. |
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| Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. |
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| One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. |
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| One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. |
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| One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. |
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| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. |
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| People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. |
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| People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make |
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| Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. |
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| Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. |
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| Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. |
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