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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
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History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
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Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
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Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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