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" One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. "
Oscar Wilde
Always
Winning
Should
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" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
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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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" The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. "
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" There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "
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" Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. "
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" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "
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" Biography lends to death a new terror. "
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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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" The truth is rarely pure and never simple. "
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" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
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" There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "
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" Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. "
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" I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. "
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" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "
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" One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. "
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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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" There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. "
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