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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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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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