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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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