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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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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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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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