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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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