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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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