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"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
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"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."
"Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?"
"In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
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"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity."
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
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