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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

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

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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

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There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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