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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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