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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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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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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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People are either charming or tedious.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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I'm too old to know everything

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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