Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.Oscar Wilde
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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How strange a thing this is The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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