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• I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
• A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
• The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent…
• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have…
• I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of…
• Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
• The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
• Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
• Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

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