It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. I wonder we women stand it as well as we do.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are! Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands!
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Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
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It is the growth of the moral sense of women that makes marriage such a hopeless, one-sided institution.
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