I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Instant gratification takes too long.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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