"If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way."
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"No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be."
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"The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair."
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
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"Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices."
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"Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall."
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
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"Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."
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"And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone"
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"I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot."
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"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."
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"The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says."
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"The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher."
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"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm."
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"I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!"
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"Only the shallow know themselves."
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