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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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