Everybody likes a compliment.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Sir Winston Churchill
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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