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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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