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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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The secret of life is in art.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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