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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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