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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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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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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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