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True friends stab you in the front.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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