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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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