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- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
- Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
- Marlo Thomas
- We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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