I forget who it was that recommended men for their souls good to do each day two things they disliked.... It is a precept I have followed scrupulously for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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There is nothing but art. Art is living. To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling on its historical, cultural, or archaeological association is senseless.William Somerset Maugham
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty, but goodness.
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She Sadie Thompson gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men You filthy dirty pigs Youre all the same, all of you. Pigs Pigs'
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