Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
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Published before 06/01/2004
Land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it.
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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
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Beauty, real beauty, ends where intellectual expression begins.
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Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different.
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Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about.
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