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I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest disappointments in American married life.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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