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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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