"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."
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"When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money."
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"To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist."
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."
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"He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends."
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"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
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"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
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"It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
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"One does not see anything until one sees its beauty."
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"Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot."
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"Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman"
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
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"He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals."
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"Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning."
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"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position."
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