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The family as subversive of true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." Yes, President, I agree completely with Article 5. A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married.

What a curious shape you are!  May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" "It

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

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

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry languidly.

I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Good heavens!  Is marriage so demoralizing as that? Lane.  I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir.  I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.  I have only been married once.  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon.

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.

And when he roared into your driveway at night, you knew he was bringing music, whether you wanted it or not.

What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in the 'what ought to be.

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Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses, I'm an easy victim. Why, by now Your arrows practically know their own way to the target And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?

The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.

Even the Sun, whose star-born radiance Governs all the world, became the thrall of love.

I'm a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don't need training – they just are.

Nothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded.

I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.' 'Well, you can tell Emerson from me next time you see him that he's an ass.' 'Very good, sir.

I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.