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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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