"In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization."
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"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art."
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"Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it."
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"I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures."
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"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land."
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"For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."
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"Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."
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"The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract."
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"The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves"
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"You know what a woman's curiosity is."
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"Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage."
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"Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men."
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"America is one long expectoration."
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"The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging."
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"The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium."
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"Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art."
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"It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
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