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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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