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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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America is not a country, it is a world.

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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