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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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