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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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