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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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