"To win back my youth, Gerald, there is nothing I wouldn't doexcept take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community."
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"As for a title, a title is really rather a nuisance in these democratic days. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant."
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"God's law is only Love."
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope."
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
"I cannot love where I cannot trust."
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The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young.
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
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Lord Arthur Saviles Crime by Oscar Wilde