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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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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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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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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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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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