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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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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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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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