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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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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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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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