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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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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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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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