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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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Everything popular is wrong.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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