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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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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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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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