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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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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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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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

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It is what we fear that happens to us.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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