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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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