Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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I was disappointed in Niagara --most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.Oscar Wilde
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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