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" All art is quite useless. "
Oscar Wilde
Quite
Art
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" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "
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" The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. "
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" I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
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" I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. "
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" 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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" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "
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" Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. "
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" It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. "
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" In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. "
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" Hatred is blind, as well as love. "
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" If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. "
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" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "
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" Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. "
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" Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. "
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" She is a peacock in everything but beauty. "
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" Writing bores me so. "
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" Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. "
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" Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. "
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" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "
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" You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. "
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" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "
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" Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. "
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