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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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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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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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