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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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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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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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