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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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Life is a great disappointment.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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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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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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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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