It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is...

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is...

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman...

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman...

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is...

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is...

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader...

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader...

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.