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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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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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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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