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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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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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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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