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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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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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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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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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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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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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