"Bad manners make a journalist."
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"It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes."
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"Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way."
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"The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay."
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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
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"A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written."
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"I didn't have a life until I went up onstage."
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"If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."
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"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
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"Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past."
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"Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not."
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"Scepticism is the beginning of Faith."
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"Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
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"I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."
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"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."
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"And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive."
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"To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies."
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"The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."
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"Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets."
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"It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out."
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