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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed k...  
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.  
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have neve...  
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.  
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I...  
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest fl...  
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.  
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too bus...  
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the...  
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.  
I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asp...  
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.  
Poetry is the deification of reality.  
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - b...  
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of th...  
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their othe...  
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have...  
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on trut...  
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they ...  
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant ...  
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearanc...