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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

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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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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

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