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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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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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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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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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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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