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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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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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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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