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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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All women are rebels.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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You are Beautiful when you are happy

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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