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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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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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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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