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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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