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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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