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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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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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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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