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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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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 a brickbat.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

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