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" One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. "
Oscar Wilde
Love
Reason
Never
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" In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. "
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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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" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "
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" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "
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" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
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" The truth is rarely pure and never simple. "
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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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" He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. "
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" It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. "
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" This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. "
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" All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. "
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" Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. "
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" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "
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" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "
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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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" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "
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Friendship
" Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. "
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For The People
" A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
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" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "
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" There is no sin except stupidity. "
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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
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" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
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" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "
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" Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. "
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" One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. "
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" I am not young enough to know everything. "
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" Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. "
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" You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. "
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" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "
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