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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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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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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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