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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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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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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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America is not a country, it is a world.

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

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

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