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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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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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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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Genius is born-not paid

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