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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "

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" She is a peacock in everything but beauty. "

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" The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. "

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" Only the shallow know themselves. "

" Writing bores me so. "

" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "

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

" Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. "

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" London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. "

" I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. "

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

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

" Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "

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

" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "

" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "

" Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. "