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Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of...

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Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his...

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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: Art, like Nature,...

Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature,...

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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Oscar Wilde: It is because...

Oscar Wilde: It is because...

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...

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Oscar Wilde: I should be...

Oscar Wilde: I should be...

I should be like a lion in a cave of savage Daniels.

Source: Explaining why he...

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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: Pray don't talk...

Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...

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Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Source: In The...

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Oscar Wilde: It is through...

Oscar Wilde: It is through...

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we realize our perfection.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: No sooner had...

George Bernard Shaw: No sooner had...

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on it legs again in the name of...

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George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity,...

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George Bernard Shaw: Reasonable people adapt...

George Bernard Shaw: Reasonable people adapt...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All...

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George Bernard Shaw: The great secret,...

George Bernard Shaw: The great secret,...

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having...

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George Bernard Shaw: The only power...

George Bernard Shaw: The only power...

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: The things most...

George Bernard Shaw: The things most...

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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George Bernard Shaw: The only service...

George Bernard Shaw: The only service...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can...

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George Bernard Shaw: There are two...

George Bernard Shaw: There are two...

There are two classes in good society in England. The equestrian classes and the neurotic...

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George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

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George Bernard Shaw: The utmost I...

George Bernard Shaw: The utmost I...

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which...

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