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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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Love is easily killed.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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