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"It is difficult not to write satire."
Satire
"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted."
Heart
"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Man
"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."
Criticism
"There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman."
Woman
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
Virtue
"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face."
Will
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
Nature
"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
Beauty
"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason."
Reason
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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
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Personal Development
"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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Personal Development
"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
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Personal Development
"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
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"Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie."
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