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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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