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Duty is what one expects from others.

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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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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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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