I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect development. It must be merged in instinct before we become fine.Oscar Wilde
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah there is the sting of life.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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