Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Aphorisms by Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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I am not sure that foreigners should cultivate likes or dislikes about the people they are invited to meet.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilisation goes they are in their second.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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