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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. (hell)
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. (hell)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (giving)
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. (heartbreak)
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (fashion)
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (future)
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (friends and friendsh)
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. (memory)
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! (madness)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (liberty)
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. (literature)
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. (joy)
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. (humankind)
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first. (law and lawyers)
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. (jealousy)
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. (love)
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. (self-sacrifice)
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. (honesty)
All problems are finally scientific problems. (problems)
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. (marriage)
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. (marriage)
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. (human nature)
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. (hunting)
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians. (judaism and jews)
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. (horses)
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