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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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