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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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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 one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Most people are other people.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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