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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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