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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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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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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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