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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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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 British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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