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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

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

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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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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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