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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
Time
"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."
Wisdom
"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."
People
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
Genius
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
Religion
"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."
God
"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
Morality
"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
Beauty
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
Future
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
Friendship
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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
"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
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Personal Development
"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."
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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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