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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith, and the lesson of Romance.

All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

I admit that I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.

'I am so sorry, Harry,' he cried, 'but really it is entirely your fault. That book you sent me so fascinated me that I forgot how the time was going.'
'Yes; I thought you would like it,' replied his host, rising from his chair.
'I didn't say I liked it, Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.'
'Ah, you have discovered that?' murmured Lord Henry.
And they passed into the dining-room.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.