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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

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True friends stab you in the front.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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