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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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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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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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