A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted. Save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog, and sometimes for a man.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which ar

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

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