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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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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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