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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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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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