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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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