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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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