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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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Life is too important to be taken seriously.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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