The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.Oscar Wilde
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.
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