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A burnt child loves the fire.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Music is the perfect type of art.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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