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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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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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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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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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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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