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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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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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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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