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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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