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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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Every woman is a rebel.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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One should always be in love.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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