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Bad manners make a journalist.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

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