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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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