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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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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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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

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