oscarwilde
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
| To be premature is to be perfect. |
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| The only way to atone for being occasionally a little overdressed is by being always absolutely overeducated. |
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| There is a fatality about all good resolutions. They are invariably made too soon. |
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| One should always be a little improbable. |
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| Time is a waste of money. |
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| Only the shallow know themselves. |
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| No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Vulgarity is the conduct of others. |
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| It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. |
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| Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness. |
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| If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. |
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| In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. |
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| Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. |
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| Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance. |
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| The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. |
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| Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. |
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| A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. |
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| Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither. |
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| If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty. |
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| Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. |
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