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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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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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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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