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One should always be a little improbable.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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