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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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