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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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I'm too old to know everything

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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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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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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