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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: \'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.\'
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.