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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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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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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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