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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

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When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

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Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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