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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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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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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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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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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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