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" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "
Oscar Wilde
Long
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Man
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" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "
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" I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. "
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" If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. "
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" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "
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" The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. "
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" Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "
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" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "
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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "
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" Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. "
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" Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. "
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" Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. "
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" Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. "
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" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "
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" Work is the curse of the drinking classes. "
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" All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. "
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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "
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" There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. "
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Man
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" Everything popular is wrong. "
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" In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. "
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" Charity creates a multitude of sins. "
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" Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. "
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" When good Americans die they go to Paris. "
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" To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. "
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Modern
Intelligence
" I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. "
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" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "
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" In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. "
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" Biography lends to death a new terror. "
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" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "
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" Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "
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