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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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History is merely gossip

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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