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Experience was of noe ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

It is a sad truht, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything.The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for

Lord Henry looked serious for some moments. "It is perfectly monstrous," he said, at last, "the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

Perhaps, after all, America never has been dicorvered," said Mr. Erskine. "I myself would say it har merely been detected

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All inflence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

I like persons better than principles, and I like people with no principles better than anything else in the world

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best for ending one

as for believing things , I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.