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Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are...

Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Death closes all:...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Death closes all:...

Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: After-dinner talk<br>Across the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: After-dinner talk
Across the...

After-dinner talk
Across the walnuts and the wine.


Source: The Miller's...

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Oscar Wilde: Bad art is...

Oscar Wilde: Bad art is...

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Source: House Decoration,...

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Oscar Wilde: For an artist...

Oscar Wilde: For an artist...

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the...

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Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...

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Oscar Wilde: For his mourners...

Oscar Wilde: For his mourners...

For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.


Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...

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Oscar Wilde: Crying is the...

Oscar Wilde: Crying is the...

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Source: Duchess of...

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James Matthew Barrie: Temper is a...

James Matthew Barrie: Temper is a...

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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G C Lichtenberg: As the few...

G C Lichtenberg: As the few...

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as...

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G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

G C Lichtenberg: If an angel...

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2...

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G C Lichtenberg: Once the good...

G C Lichtenberg: Once the good...

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered...

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G C Lichtenberg: Nowadays three witty...

G C Lichtenberg: Nowadays three witty...

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Source: Aphorisms,...

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G C Lichtenberg: Sickness is mankind's...

G C Lichtenberg: Sickness is mankind's...

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook F, aph. 100...

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G C Lichtenberg: To do the...

G C Lichtenberg: To do the...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its...

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Benjamin Franklin: Does't thou love...

Benjamin Franklin: Does't thou love...

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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Benjamin Franklin: I think that...

Benjamin Franklin: I think that...

I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for...

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Benjamin Franklin: Drive thy business...

Benjamin Franklin: Drive thy business...

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: What is the...

Benjamin Franklin: What is the...

What is the use of a new-born child?

Source: Response when asked the same question...

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