"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
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"The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality."
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"Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!"
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"It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
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"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
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"Life is too short to be taken seriously."
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
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"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
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"As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"The secret of life is in art."
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"Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."
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"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
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"I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long."
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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
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