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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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Don't use big words. They mean so little.

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

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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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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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

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