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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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