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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

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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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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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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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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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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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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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