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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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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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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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