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Oscar Wilde: The State is...

Oscar Wilde: The State is...

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the...

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Oscar Wilde: The old-fashioned respect...

Oscar Wilde: The old-fashioned respect...

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Source: Gwendolen, in...

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Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry...

Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry...

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be...

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Jean Anouilh: With God, what...

Jean Anouilh: With God, what...

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the...

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Oscar Wilde: What a fuss...

Oscar Wilde: What a fuss...

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do...

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Oscar Wilde: One should never...

Oscar Wilde: One should never...

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old...

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Benjamin Franklin: One today is...

Benjamin Franklin: One today is...

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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Benjamin Franklin: Laziness travels so...

Benjamin Franklin: Laziness travels so...

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Source: Poor Richard's...

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Benjamin Franklin: The discontented man...

Benjamin Franklin: The discontented man...

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Benjamin Franklin: I look upon...

Benjamin Franklin: I look upon...

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the...

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Brian Tracy: The potential of...

Brian Tracy: The potential of...

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of...

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G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be...

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G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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G C Lichtenberg: Theologians always try...

G C Lichtenberg: Theologians always try...

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Source:...

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G C Lichtenberg: There is no...

G C Lichtenberg: There is no...

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too...

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George Herbert: A man of...

George Herbert: A man of...

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

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George Farquhar: Observe this, that...

George Farquhar: Observe this, that...

Observe this, that tho' a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if...

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George Farquhar: Captain is a...

George Farquhar: Captain is a...

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem,...

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Antonin Artaud: No one has...

Antonin Artaud: No one has...

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of...

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