The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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