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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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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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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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