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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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