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Our lives within may be mysteries and marvels; but our names and noses are too familiar to the world.

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The tone of people with low aims is always a high one: the talk of those who live purely for the Good is appalling.

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If we disregard what the world says of someone, we live to repent it.

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All our affirmations are mere matters of chronology; and our bad taste nothing more than the bad taste of the age we live in.

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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave just as outrageously as the world will let them.

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn.

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We live in a world of monkeys; but often monkeys, at a distance, look like men.

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All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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If with an excess of interest you peer into the lives of other people, what you will probably find is that you have to pay their debts.

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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most Golden Pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are empty.

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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

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