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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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