The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Subject:
Life   
Endings   
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Subject:
Enemy   
Forgiveness   
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Compliment   
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Subject:
Men   
Women   
Opinions   
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Subject:
Children   
Parents   
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Who, being loved, is poor?
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Hate   
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Subject:
Beauty   
Good   
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Subject:
Life   
Success   
Persistence   
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Subject:
Humor   
Americans   
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Subject:
Humor   
Marriage   
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Subject:
Age   
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A true friend stabs you in the front.
Subject:
Friendship   
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Subject:
Curiosity   
Journalism   
Media   
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Subject:
Books   
Reading   
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Subject:
Success   
Science   
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance withthe dictates of reason.
Subject:
Mankind   
Reason   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Relationship   
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
Subject:
Hypocrisy   
Virtue   
Human Nature   
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Subject:
Truth   
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