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"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."
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"Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account."
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"All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women."
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"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."
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"Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted."
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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you.Scream, and everyone ignores you."
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"Money cannot redeem time."
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"Live together as united people in a beautiful peaceful world."
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"What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics."
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"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose."
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"When two Englishmen meet their first talk is of the weather."
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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."
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"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
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"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."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth."
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"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."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
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