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- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
- Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams
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