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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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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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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

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