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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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

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

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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Life would be dull without them.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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