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Famous Quotes by George Moore

Famous quotes by the Irish novelist, art critic, and dramatist, George Moore. He was born on February 24, 1852 in County Mayo, Ireland. He died in London on January 21, 1933.

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There is always a right and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

If good books did good, the world would have been converted long ago.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

The poor would never be able to live at all if it weren't for the poor.

It is only with scent and silk and artifices that we raise love from an instinct to a passion.

There is nothing so consoling as to find that one's neighbour's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

Nothing sharpens the wits like promiscuous flirtation.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.

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Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

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