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Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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

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

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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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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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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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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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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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