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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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

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