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" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle. "

" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

" By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. "

" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "