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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. =

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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