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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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