+ QUOTES +
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Oscar Wilde -
"I can resist everything except temptation."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"Truth is rarely pure, and never simple."
"There is no sin except stupidity."
"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."
"In married life three is company and two is none."
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
"Bad artists always admire each other's work."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"It is better to have permanent income than to be fascinating."
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgurize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
"It is better to be beautful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly."
"One should always play fairly - when one has the winning cards."
"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
