Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacy Are the canonical vices.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one.George Bernard Shaw
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
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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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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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