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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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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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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

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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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Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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