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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Don't use big words. They mean so little.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

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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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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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