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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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