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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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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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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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The secret of life is in art.

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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History is only gossip.

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