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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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