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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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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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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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