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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Parents and Children (1914) ‘Children’s Happiness’
Acquired notions of propriety are stronger than natural instincts. It is easier to recruit for monasteries and convents than to induce an Arab woman to uncover her mouth in public, or a British officer to walk through Bond Street in a golfing cap on an afternoon in May.
Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Alcohol is a very necessary article … It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Major Barbara (1907) act 2

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Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Annajanska (1919)
All men mean well.
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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