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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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History is only gossip.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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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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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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