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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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The Noblest form of Affection

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No good deed goes unpunished.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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The heart was made to be broken.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is ...more

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak ...more

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.