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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw