"One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy."
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"There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them."
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"The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach."
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"Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself."
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"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
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"The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there."
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"Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
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"The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical."
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"Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
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"There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet."
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"It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
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"It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it"
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"Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?"
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"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."
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"I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk."
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"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
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"What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics."
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"I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member"
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