"Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it"
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"A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime."
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"God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone."
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"The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society."
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"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
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"Hatred is blind, as well as love."
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"The best people to work for are me, myself and I."
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"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
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"Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence."
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"Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
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"Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses."
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"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art."
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"It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
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"You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that."
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"Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination."
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"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
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"Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on."
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"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about."
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