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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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