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"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
"The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one."
"I can resist everything except temptation."
"If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
"If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life."
"Don't use big words. They mean so little."
"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
"My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone."
"I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
"Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose."
"To define is to limit."
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
"The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."