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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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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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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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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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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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