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"Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it."

"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."

"A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female."

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."

"The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong."

"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with."