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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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

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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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