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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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Education is an admirable thing.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

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