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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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