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" Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. "

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" I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. "

" One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. "

" Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. "

" There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. "

" Charity creates a multitude of sins. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "

" Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. "

" It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. "

" There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. "

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

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" The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. "

" 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. "

" Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. "

" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "

" Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. "

" Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. "

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

" In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. "

" Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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