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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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I'm too old to know everything

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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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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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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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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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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