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Oscar Wilde: Life has been...

Oscar Wilde: Life has been...

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Oscar Wilde: Discontent is the...

Oscar Wilde: Discontent is the...

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Children begin by...

Oscar Wilde: Children begin by...

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive...

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Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is...

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Oscar Wilde: I choose my...

Oscar Wilde: I choose my...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good...

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Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would...

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Oscar Wilde: There are only...

Oscar Wilde: There are only...

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who...

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Oscar Wilde: We have been...

Oscar Wilde: We have been...

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence...

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Oscar Wilde: The amount of...

Oscar Wilde: The amount of...

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply...

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Oscar Wilde: Each man kills...

Oscar Wilde: Each man kills...

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Source: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' [For...

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William Shakespeare: Home-keeping youth have...

William Shakespeare: Home-keeping youth have...

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I....

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William Shakespeare: Gives not the...

William Shakespeare: Gives not the...

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich...

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William Shakespeare: Here will be...

William Shakespeare: Here will be...

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

Source: The...

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William Shakespeare: Why then the...

William Shakespeare: Why then the...

Why then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.


Source: The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The hues of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The hues of...

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not seen if the eye is too near.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is no...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is no...

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The secret of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The secret of...

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only prudence...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only prudence...

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Want is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Want is a...

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: To be great...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: To be great...

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Source: Essays, Self-Reliance (First Series),...

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