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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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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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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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