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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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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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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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