Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel.Oscar Wilde
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.
Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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A true friend stabs you in the front.
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