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Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy...

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount...

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Oscar Wilde: The world has...

Oscar Wilde: The world has...

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Oscar Wilde: One is absolutely...

Oscar Wilde: One is absolutely...

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good...

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Oscar Wilde: I have found...

Oscar Wilde: I have found...

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...

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Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: A damsel is...

Oscar Wilde: A damsel is...

A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

Oscar Wilde: On an occasion...

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a...

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Alexander Pope: Here thou, great...

Alexander Pope: Here thou, great...

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes...

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Alexander Pope: Let sinful bachelors...

Alexander Pope: Let sinful bachelors...

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore;
Full well they merit all they feel, and more:
Unaw'd by precepts, human...

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Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Alexander Pope: Never elated when...

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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Alexander Pope: Most authors steal...

Alexander Pope: Most authors steal...

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alexander Pope: On wrongs swift...

Alexander Pope: On wrongs swift...

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alexander Pope: Religion blushing veils...

Alexander Pope: Religion blushing veils...

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,
And unawares morality expires.
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to...

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Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober...

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Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.


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Alexander Pope: The Muse but...

Alexander Pope: The Muse but...

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife,
To help me through this long disease, my...

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Alexander Pope: The worst of...

Alexander Pope: The worst of...

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Source: Imitations of Horace, bk. 1,...

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Alexander Pope: They dream in...

Alexander Pope: They dream in...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alexander Pope: Satire's my weapon,...

Alexander Pope: Satire's my weapon,...

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.


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