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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Nature is always behind the age

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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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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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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