

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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