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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
[ Books - Bestsellers ]
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
[ Youth ]
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
[ Happiness ]
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
[ Fashion ]
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
[ Gossip ]
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
[ Bigotry ]
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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
[ Dreams ]
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
[ Leisure ]
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
[ Lies and Lying ]
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
[ Soul ]
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
[ Evil ]
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
[ Night ]
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
[ Acquaintance ]
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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
[ Generations ]
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
[ Vocation ]
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
[ Decay ]
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
[ Baldness ]
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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
[ God ]
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
[ Acquaintance ]
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What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
[ Joy ]
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What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
[ Children ]
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