Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty...

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone...

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural...

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural...

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say...

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say...

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax...

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax...