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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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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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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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