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A true friend stabs you in the front.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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