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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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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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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

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