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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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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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In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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

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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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