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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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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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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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