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" To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. "
Oscar Wilde
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" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "
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" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "
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" Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. "
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" Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "
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" I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. "
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" While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. "
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" I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. "
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" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "
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" I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. "
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" In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. "
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" In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. "
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" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "
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