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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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All women are rebels.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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