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" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "
Oscar Wilde
Loved
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Women
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" I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. "
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" If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. "
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" Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. "
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" The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "
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" I have never given adoration to any body except myself. "
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" An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "
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" Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. "
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" 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. "
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" A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. "
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" The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. "
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" I am not young enough to know everything. "
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" 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. "
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" The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. "
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" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "
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" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "
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" It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. "
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" How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. "
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She
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" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "
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" America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "
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" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "
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" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "
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" A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. "
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" I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. "
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" Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. "
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" If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. "
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" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "
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" I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. "
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" 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. "
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