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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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