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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
• It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
• Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they…
• There is no truth. Only points of view.
• Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.…
• Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what…
• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
• The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already…
• Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

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