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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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Subject:
Humor   
Music   
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Subject:
Journalism   
Reading   
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Subject:
Truth   
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Subject:
Discovery   
America   
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Subject:
Humor   
England   
English   
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
Subject:
Death   
Opinions   
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Subject:
Beauty   
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Subject:
Music   
Art   
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Subject:
Life   
Experience   
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Subject:
Past   
Judgment   
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Subject:
Intellect   
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Subject:
America   
Source:
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Subject:
Choice   
Poetry   
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Past   
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Subject:
Reading   
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Subject:
Experience   
Effort   
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Subject:
Truth   
Human Nature   
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Only the shallow know themselves.
Subject:
Shallow   
Source: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Subject:
Happiness   
Marriage   
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