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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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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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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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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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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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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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