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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."
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"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether."
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"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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"I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now."
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"I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow."
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"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables."
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"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life
"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Help
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force
"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art
"I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it."
Morality
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