It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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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.
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Society often forgives the criminal it never forgives the dreamer.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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