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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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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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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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