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" Charity creates a multitude of sins. "
Oscar Wilde
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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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" Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. "
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" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "
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" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "
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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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" Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. "
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" One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. "
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" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
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" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "
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" Biography lends to death a new terror. "
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" Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. "
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" London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. "
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" I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. "
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