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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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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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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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