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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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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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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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