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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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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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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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