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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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

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My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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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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