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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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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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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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