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" Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. "
Oscar Wilde
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" Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. "
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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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" '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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" It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. "
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" A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
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" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
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" There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. "
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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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" In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. "
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" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "
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" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "
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" In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. "
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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "
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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
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" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "
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" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "
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" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
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" I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. "
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