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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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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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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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