Thirty five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty five for years.
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Always love your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
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Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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