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Men Trifle With Their Business And Their Politics But Never Trifle With Their Games. It Brings Truth Home To Them. They Cannot Pretend They Have Won When They Have Lost Nor That They Had A Magnificent Drive When They Foozled It. The Englishman Is At His Best On The Links And At His Worst In The Cabinet.

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Men Trifle With Their Business And Their Politics But Never Trifle With Their Games. It Brings Truth Home To Them. They Cannot Pretend They Have Won When They Have Lost Nor That They Had A Magnificent Drive When They Foozled It. The Englishman Is At His Best On The Links And At His Worst In The Cabinet.

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The Best Way To Get Your Point Across Is To Entertain.

He Knows Nothing And Thinks He Knows Everything. That Points Clearly To A Political Career.

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I Don't Want To Talk Grammar. I Want To Talk Like A Lady.

The Moment We Want To Believe Something, We Suddenly See All The Arguments For It, And Become Blind To The Arguments Against It.

Self-sacrifice Enables Us To Sacrifice Other People Without Blushing.

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The Real Brahms Is Nothing More Than A Sentimental Voluptuary

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It Is Long And Hard And Painful To Create Life: It Is Short And Easy To Steal The Life Others Have Made.

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No Use Slaving For Me And Then Saying You Want To Be Cared For: Who Cares For A Slave? If You Come Back, Come Back For The Sake Of Good Fellowship; For You’ll Get Nothing Else.

What We Call Education And Culture Is For The Most Part Nothing But The Substitution Of Reading For Experience, Of Literature For Life, Of The Obsolete Fictitious For The Contemporary Real.

The More A Man Possesses Over And Above What He Uses, The More Careworn He Becomes.

Obedience Simulates Subordination As Fear Of The Police Simulates Honesty.

Those Who Do Not Know How To Live Must Make A Merit Of Dying.

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Clever And Attractive Women Do Not Want To Vote; They Are Willing To Let Men Govern As Long As They Govern Men.

Reformers Have The Idea That Change Can Be Achieved By Brute Sanity.

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Napoleon: What Shall We Do With This Soldier, Giuseppe? Everything He Says Is Wrong. Giuseppe: Make Him A General, Excellency, And Then Everything He Says Will Be Right.

It Is A Curious Sensation: The Sort Of Pain That Goes Mercifully Beyond Our Powers Of Feeling. When Your Heart Is Broken, Your Boats Are Burned: Nothing Matters Any More. It Is The End Of Happiness And The Beginning Of Peace.

People Who Are Hard, Grasping And Always Ready To Take Advantage Of Their Neighbors Become Very Rich.

There Is No Sincerer Love Than The Love Of Food.

Only Where There Is Pecuniary Equality Can The Distinction Of Merit Stand Out.

If The Announcer Can Produce The Impression That He Is A Gentleman, He May Pronounce As He Pleases.

Defeatism Is The Wretchedest Of Policies.

Christianity As A Specific Doctrine Was Slain With Jesus, Suddenly And Utterly. He Was Hardly Cold In His Grave, Or High In His Heaven (as You Please), Before The Apostles Dragged The Tradition Of Him Down To The Level Of The Thing It Has Remained Ever Since.

New Opinions Often Appear First As Jokes And Fancies, Then As Blasphemies And Treason, Then As Questions Open To Discussion, And Finally As Established Truths.

Besides, Do Any Of Us Understand What We Are Doing? If We Did, Would We Ever Do It?

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I Know I Began As A Passion And Have Ended As A Habit , Like All Husbands .

Opera Is When A Tenor And Soprano Want To Make Love, But Are Prevented From Doing So By A Baritone.

Miracles, In The Sense Of Phenomena We Cannot Explain, Surround Us On Every Hand: Life Itself Is The Miracle Of Miracles.

Cruelty Must Be Whitewashed By A Moral Excuse, And Pretense Of Reluctance.

Journalists Are Too Poorly Paid In This Country To Know Anything That Is Fit For Publication.

Love Is A Gross Exaggeration Of The Difference Between One Person And Everybody Else.

I Am A Brigand: I Live By Robbing The Rich.' 'i Am A Gentleman: I Live By Robbing The Poor.

I Really Don't Think I Could Consent To Go To Heaven If I Thought There Were No Animals There.

Every Dream Is A Prophecy: Every Jest Is An Earnest In The Womb Of Time.

Perhaps The Greatest Social Service That Can Be Rendered By Anybody To The Country And To Mankind Is To Bring Up A Family.

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