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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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The secret of life is in art.

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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