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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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