"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat."
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"An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be."
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"Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious."
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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it."
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"To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
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"It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
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"And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal"
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"I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
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"Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about."
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"Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
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"Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense."
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"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice."
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"My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression"
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"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret."
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"I can sympathize with everything, except suffering."
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"He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
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"Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature."
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"Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity."
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