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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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