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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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 Repentance is quite out of date.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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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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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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