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

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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

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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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