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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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