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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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