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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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All art is quite useless.

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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

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Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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