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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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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.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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