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SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: … But may I ask, at heart, are you an optimist or a pessimist? Those seem to be the only two fashionable religions left to us now...more

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.