Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
OSCAR WILDEHumanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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