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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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