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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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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
In the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea.
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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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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
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Women are a fascinatingly wilful sex. Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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