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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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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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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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