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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is...more

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposa...more

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You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

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Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that...more

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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 ...more