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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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