"Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins."
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"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
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"Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . ."
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him."
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars."
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"Some people always know the price, but not the value"
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"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
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"A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks."
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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
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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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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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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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"It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
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"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
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"She is a peacock in everything but beauty!"
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
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"If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation."
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"Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light."
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