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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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I'm too old to know everything

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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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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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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