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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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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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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us

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I may be in the gutter, but I'm looking at the stars.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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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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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Patriotism

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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Time is waste of money.

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