"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
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"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."
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"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
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"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
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"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
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"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."
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"Literature has become my life."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket."
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"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
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"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."
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"What is art? Nature concentrated."
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"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists."
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"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
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"Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders."
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