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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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A mutual misunderstanding.

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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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