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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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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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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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