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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted."
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Personal Development
"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
Authority
"Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty."
Morality
"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?"
Philosophy
"There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature."
Knowledge
"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."
Beauty
"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
Philosophy
"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
Fiction
"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
Philosophy
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
Difference
"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
Irony
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