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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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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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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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