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| Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived | | Truth | |
| Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building | | Marriage; Women | |
| Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation... | | Uncategorized | |
| Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. | | Uncategorized | |
| Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. | | Vulgarity | |
| Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people | | Vulgarity | |
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| We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell | | Devil; Evil; Hell | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. | | Uncategorized | |
| We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. | | Doubt; Memories | |
| We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. | | Uncategorized | |
| We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. | | Uncategorized | |
| We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. | | Uncategorized | |
| We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. | | Uncategorized | |
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