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It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether
the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the
man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood, who strives vali Levant
Oscar
If you cannot in the long run tell everyone what you have been doing,
your doing was worthless.
 Levant
Oscar
"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
 Oscar Wilde
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
 Oscar Wilde
We should have a Vollyballocracy. We elect a six-pack of presidents.
Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate.
 Wilde
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The Russians have put a small ball up in the air. That does not raise my
apprehensions one iota.
 Wilde
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We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night,
we'd bark ourselves.
 Wilde
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A woman who is guided by the head and not by the heart is a social
pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate
woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love,
without virtue, without sex.
 Wilde
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Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're
of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain
an uncontainable experience.
 Wilde
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not
become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks
into you.
 Wilde
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A violent man will die a violent death.
 Wilde
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When, in 1964, New Hampshire Republican Senator Norris Cotton announced
his support of Bary Goldwater in his state's primary election, he was
questioned as to whether this indicated a change of his hitherto "liberal"
political views.
"Well," expla Wilde
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
 Wilde
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Everybody has something to conceal.
 Wilde
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is
thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have
drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
 Wilde
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Live fast, die young, and leave a flat patch of fur on the highway!
 Wilde
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
 Wilde
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Two wrongs are only the beginning.
 Wilde
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Never have so many understood so little about so much.
 Wilde
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It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east
laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The
thousands were led by Arrowroot, who sat limply in his sidesaddle,
nursing a whopper. Goodgulf, Gimlet, and the r Wilde
Oscar
Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained
only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial
quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
 Wilde
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The man who runs may fight again.
 Wilde
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Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the
Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an
open market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri Wilde
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
 Wilde
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Plus ,ca change, plus c'est la m^eme chose.
[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]
 Wilde
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The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the
societies in which they occur.
 Wilde
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Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
 Wilde
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Nothing endures but change.
 Wilde
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Honesty's the best policy.
 Wilde
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I went to a party on Perry Lane in 1962, and
the party spilled out of the house, and came down the street, and covered the
world.
 Wilde
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Piece of cake!
 Wilde
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The major sin is the sin of being born.
 Wilde
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time.
 Wilde
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
 Wilde
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence
is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
 Wilde
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
 Wilde Oscar
Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends, but quickly to their
misfortunes.
 Wilde Oscar
If a man slept by day, he had little time to work. That was a
satisfying notion to Escargot.
 Wilde Oscar
It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination
of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends...
 Wilde Oscar
So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.
 Wilde Oscar
The more the merrier.
 Wilde Oscar
Mum's the word.
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent
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