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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
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)
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
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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
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, 1941, Harrow School

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