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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

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