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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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