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" In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. "
Oscar Wilde
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" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "
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" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
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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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" He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. "
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" How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. "
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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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" Who, being loved, is poor? "
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" No man is rich enough to buy back his past. "
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" Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. "
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" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "
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" The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. "
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" How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. "
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" A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. "
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" It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. "
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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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" Everything popular is wrong. "
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" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "
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" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "
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" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
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" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "
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" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "
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" All art is quite useless. "
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" The truth is rarely pure and never simple. "
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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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" The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. "
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" A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "
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" Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. "
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" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "
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" The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. "
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