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Oscar Wilde: Between men and...

Oscar Wilde: Between men and...

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no...

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Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Source: Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...

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Oscar Wilde: And yet, and...

Oscar Wilde: And yet, and...

And yet, and yet,
These Christs that die upon the barricades,
God knows it I am with them, in some...

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Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never...

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Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to...

Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to...

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden...

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G K Chesterton: Youth is the...

G K Chesterton: Youth is the...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of...

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G K Chesterton: The full value...

G K Chesterton: The full value...

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted...

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G K Chesterton: A man does...

G K Chesterton: A man does...

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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G K Chesterton: Do not free...

G K Chesterton: Do not free...

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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G K Chesterton: The successful businessman...

G K Chesterton: The successful businessman...

The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by...

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Henry David Thoreau: I do not...

Henry David Thoreau: I do not...

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we...

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Henry David Thoreau: Politics is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Politics is the...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Henry David Thoreau: We need only...

Henry David Thoreau: We need only...

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Source: In The...

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Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...

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Honore de Balzac: If we could...

Honore de Balzac: If we could...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Source: In The...

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Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine...

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James Allen: In all human...

James Allen: In all human...

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Source: The...

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