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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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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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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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