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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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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 property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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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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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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