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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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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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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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Most people are other people.

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

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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