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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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