Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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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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A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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Higgins: Besides, you shouldn't cut your old friends now that you have risen in the world. That's what we call snobbery.

classic line from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1912)
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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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