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" No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. "
Oscar Wilde
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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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" If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. "
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" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "
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" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "
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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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" Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "
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" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "
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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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" A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. "
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" When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. "
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" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "
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" To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "
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" The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. "
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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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" Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. "
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" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "
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