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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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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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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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Life is too short to be taken seriously.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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

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