One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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- The East End is a very important problem.
- Quite so. It's the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.
- I wish you would tell me how to become young again.
- Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?
- Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
- But surely if one lives for oneself, one pays a terrible price for doing so.
- Yes, we're overcharged for everything nowadays.
- One has to pay in other ways than money.
- What sort of ways, Sir Thomas?
- I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in... Well, in the consciousness of degradation.
- No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
- I know what pleasure is. It's to adore someone.
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Actors: George Sanders (Lord Henry Wotton), Hurd Hatfield (Dorian Gray), Lowell Gilmore (Basil Hallward), Angela Lansbury (Sibyl Vane), Donna Reed (Gladys Hallward)
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