"If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it."
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"Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two."
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"Education is an admirable thing."
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"The proper school to learn art is not life but art"
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"Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism."
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"There is only good art and mediocre art."
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"The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it."
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"People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies."
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"Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue."
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"Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead."
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"And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame"
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"Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things."
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"And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine."
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"No gentleman ever has any money."
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"The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature."
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"That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men."
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"Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself."
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"The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians."
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"I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development."
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"I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to."
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