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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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