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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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

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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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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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