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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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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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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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