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

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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All art is quite useless.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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