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" It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. "

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

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

" There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. "

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

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

" A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. "

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

" Everything popular is wrong. "

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

" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "

" I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

" There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "

" I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. "

" If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. "

" If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. "

" Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. "

" 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. "

" The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

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

" Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "