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

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" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. "

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

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

" It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "

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

" 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. "

" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "

" A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

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

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

" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "

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

" Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. "

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

" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "

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

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

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" 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. "

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

" I am not young enough to know everything. "

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

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

" Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. "

" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "

" I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. "