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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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