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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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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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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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