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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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