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" Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "
Oscar Wilde
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" Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. "
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" A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. "
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" How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. "
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" The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. "
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" I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. "
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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "
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" It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. "
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" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
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" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "
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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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" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "
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" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "
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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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" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
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" Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. "
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" Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. "
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" Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. "
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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
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