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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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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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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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