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Orison Swett Marden

American author and founder of Success magazine

Nationality: American

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Type: Author

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Birth: 1850-1924

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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I am dying beyond my means.

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Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.

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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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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

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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

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In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

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Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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I am not young enough to know everything.

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

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They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Life would be dull without them.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurren

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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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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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the se

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Nothing succeeds like success.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

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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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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class.

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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a Writerhe has mastered everything except language.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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