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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 a brickbat.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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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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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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