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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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People are either charming or tedious.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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Time is a waste of money.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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