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" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

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" Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. "

" 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. "

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

" Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. "

" Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

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

" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "

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

" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

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

" No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. "

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

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" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "

" There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. "

" Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. "

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. "

" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "

" Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. "

" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "