The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at. . .
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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