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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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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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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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