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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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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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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

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