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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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