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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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