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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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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. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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

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The heart was made to be broken.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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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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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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