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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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