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'I can resist everything except temptation.'.. Oscar Wilde

'Adversity is the first path to truth.'.. Lord Byron

'To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science'.. Isaac Newton

'A woman is as young as her knees.'.. Mary Quant

'The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.'.. Dennis Potter

'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'.. William Wordsworth

'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.'.. Oscar Wilde

'How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.'.. Charles Darwin

'There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor'.. Oscar Wilde

'Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.'.. Charlie Chaplin

'All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.'.. John Locke

'I'm not a great one for looking back.'.. Ian Botham

'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.'.. H G Wells

'I am not young enough to know everything.'.. J M Barrie

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'.. George Orwell

'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter

'All money is a matter of belief.'.. Adam Smith

'Experience teaches only the teachable.'.. Aldous Huxley

'I became one of the Stately Homos of England'.. Quentin Crisp

'He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.'.. John Stuart Mill

'The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice'.. William Booth

'The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them'.. John Buchan

'A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.'.. George Eliot

'Put three Englishmen on a desert island and within an hour they will have invented a class system'.. Alan Ayckbourn

'An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.'.. Aldous Huxley

'In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.'.. John Ruskin

'One half of the world cannot understand the other halfs pleasures'.. Jane Austen

'Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.'.. Lucien Freud

'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.'.. John Locke

'It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was: 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'.. Matt Busby

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