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This is just a trial, the worse days are still coming and none on earth will operate beside soldiers.

Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

eat the food from the pigs snout. it got me to be PriceMinister.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country,the suburbs and the seaside...then there come's love..and increasingly; the fear of death.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.

To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes.

It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.

Over-mastered by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute unto them.

What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none.

There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what's loud and senseless talking and swearing, any other than braying?

Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

How shall the dead arise, is no question of my faith; to believe only possibilities, is not faith, but mere philosophy.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.

Companion none is likeUnto the mind alone;For many have been harmed by speech,Through thinking, few or none.

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

That celebrated,Cultivated,UnderratedNobleman,The Duke of Plaza Toro!

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.

I'm fond of that little scene. Whether my memory is completely accurate or not, it has a sharpness that nothing I look at now can possibly have.

He is a creature of will, and the beauty of his will overreaches the tawdriness of his real object: Daisy.