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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. ”
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ”
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. ”
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ”
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ”
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. ”
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself. ”
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ”
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. ”
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do. ”