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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Credit is a young man's capital.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

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