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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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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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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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