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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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