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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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Most people are boring and stupid.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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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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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

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