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Sphinxes without secrets.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

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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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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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