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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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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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Life would be dull without them.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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