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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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