"I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock."
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"In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen."
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"It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners."
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"The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality."
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"As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him."
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"I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics."
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"Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices."
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"Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities."
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"The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use."
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"It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
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"What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence."
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"Industry is the root of all ugliness."
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"It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property."
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"Nature is always behind the age"
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"All criticism is a form of autobiography"
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"Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!"
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"It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it."
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"Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief."
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"Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same."
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"Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America."
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