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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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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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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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