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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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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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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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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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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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