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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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