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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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