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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

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