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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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America is not a country, it is a world.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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