From Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The searchable online edition is available here.
1. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
2. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place.
3. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
4. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
5. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
6. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
7. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
8. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past.
9. When good Americans die they go to Paris.
10. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
11. To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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