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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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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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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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