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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. "
Oscar Wilde
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" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
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" Everything popular is wrong. "
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" The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. "
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" Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. "
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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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" It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. "
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" I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. "
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" I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. "
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" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "
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" If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. "
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" It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
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" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "
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" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "
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" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "
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" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "
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" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "
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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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" 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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" I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. "
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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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" Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. "
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" Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. "
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" Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. "
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" If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. "
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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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