Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. . . . Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily.
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Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog he is the noise of a pianola he is a dispute about a party wall he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
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The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall.
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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke.
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