It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking...

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking...

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and...

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and...

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I...

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I...

The crown of literature is poetry.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well...

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well...

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight...

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight...

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...