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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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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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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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