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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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

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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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