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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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History is merely gossip

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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