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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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