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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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