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" America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "

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" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "

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

" In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. "

" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "

" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "

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

" The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. "

" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "

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

" Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. "

" Who, being loved, is poor? "

" When good Americans die they go to Paris. "

" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "

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

" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "

" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

" Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. "

" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "

" Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. "

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

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

" To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "

" Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. "

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

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

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