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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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