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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. (plays)
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. (miracles)
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. (men and women)
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous (peace)
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. (sanity)
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (morality)
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of. (men)
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. (population)
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. (truth)
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. (nationalities and na)
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. (misers and misery)
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. (politicians and poli)
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. (pessimism)
All great truths begin as blasphemies. (truth)
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. (poverty and the poor)
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (power)
Property is organized robbery. (property)
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. (nations)
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. (right and rightness)
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. (teachers and teachin)
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. (reasonableness)
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