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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

George Bernard Shaw