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A kiss may ruin a human life.
[ Kisses and Kissing ]
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
[ Sincerity ]
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
[ Men and Women ]
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
[ Enemies ]
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
[ Moralists ]
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
[ Faces ]
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
[ Sensitivity ]
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
[ Pessimism ]
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A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
[ Sentiment ]
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
[ Truth ]
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
[ Gentlemen ]
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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
[ Action ]
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
[ Death and Dying ]
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All art is quite useless.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
[ Charm ]
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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
[ Trials ]
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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.
[ Forgiveness ]
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
[ Ambition ]
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
[ Uncategorised ]
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
[ America ]
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
[ America ]
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
[ Experts ]
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
[ Famous Last Words ]
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
[ Temptation ]
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
[ History and Historians ]
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
[ Argument ]
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
[ Beggars ]
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
[ Daughters ]
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Bad manners make a journalist.
[ Journalism and Journalists ]
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
[ Charity ]
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
[ Consistency ]
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
[ Conversation ]
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
[ Cries and Crying ]
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
[ Leisure ]
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
[ Democracy ]
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
[ Despotism ]
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
[ Discontent ]
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
[ Dullness ]
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
[ Disciples ]
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
[ Painters and Painting ]
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
[ Women ]
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
[ Experience ]
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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
[ Mistakes ]
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
[ Fashion ]
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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
[ Fashion ]
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