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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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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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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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