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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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