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" As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. "
Oscar Wilde
War
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" To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "
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" Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. "
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" I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. "
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" While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. "
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" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
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" London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. "
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" I am not young enough to know everything. "
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" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "
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" Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. "
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" Hatred is blind, as well as love. "
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" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "
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" Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. "
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" We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "
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" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "
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" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "
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" Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. "
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" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "
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" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "
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World
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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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" When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. "
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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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" Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. "
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" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "
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" Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. "
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" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "
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" Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. "
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" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "
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" The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. "
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" Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. "
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