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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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