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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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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 tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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