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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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