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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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