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No good deed goes unpunished.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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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 beau...more

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge t...more

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

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.