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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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