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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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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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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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