There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

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