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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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