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Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...

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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: The ugly and...

Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...

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Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...

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Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...

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Oscar Wilde: If you are...

Oscar Wilde: If you are...

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Source: Gwendolen,...

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Ogden Nash: I do not...

Ogden Nash: I do not...

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many...

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Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free...

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Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Source:...

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Honore de Balzac: A woman must...

Honore de Balzac: A woman must...

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Honore de Balzac: I do not...

Honore de Balzac: I do not...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: Our life is...

Thomas Carlyle: Our life is...

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a...

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Thomas Carlyle: The best effect...

Thomas Carlyle: The best effect...

The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

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Thomas Carlyle: To the mean...

Thomas Carlyle: To the mean...

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

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Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Source:...

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Henry David Thoreau: After the first...

Henry David Thoreau: After the first...

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Source: On the Duty of Civil...

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Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a...

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Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to...

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Henry David Thoreau: Our inventions are...

Henry David Thoreau: Our inventions are...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved...

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