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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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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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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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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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History is only gossip.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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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 can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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Life would be dull without them.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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