"And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you."
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"It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing."
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"Youth is the only thing worth having."
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"The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul."
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"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."
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"I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china."
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"Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her."
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"There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted."
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"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
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"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
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"Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations."
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"All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death."
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"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness."
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"To be premature is to be perfect"
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"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
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"While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all."
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"Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary."
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"Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn."
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"One's only real life is the life one never leads."
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