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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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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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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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