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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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