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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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