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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
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Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Sirens of Titan
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil

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