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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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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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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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