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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

All art is quite useless.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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