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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

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