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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDE

Character Choose Enemy Friendship Goodness
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Humour Philosophy Silence Talk World Worst
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Inspirational Optimism Perception Stars
I am not young enough to know everything.
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Age One Liner Young
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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Agree Death Defeat Freedom Insult Yourself
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Break Up Goodnessbye Life Love Patience Wait
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Man Mother Tragedy Women
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Die Discover Mistake People Regret Wisdom
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Beautiful Death Earth Forgiveness Life Lying Peace Silence
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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Book Determination Help Reading
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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History Humanity Laugh Man Past Serious World
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Important Life Serious Talk
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Imagination Life Live Money Suffering
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Book Care Reading Writing
To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Careless Lose Misfortune Parents
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Hope Suspense Terrible

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