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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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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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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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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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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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