Quote #4

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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  2. The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, …
  3. Most women are not so young as they are painted.
  4. As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
  5. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
  6. The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
  7. Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I'm unglad.
  8. Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

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