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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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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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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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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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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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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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