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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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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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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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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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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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