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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

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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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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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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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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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