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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Topic: Ability
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In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Topic: Accuracy
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The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
Topic: Acting
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Topic: Advice
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Topic: Age
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Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
Topic: Art
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Topic: Art and Artists
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Topic: Art and Artists
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Topic: Bachelors
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Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Topic: Beliefs
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Topic: Children / Youth
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Topic: Children / Youth
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Topic: Choices
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Topic: Christianity
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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks, In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
Topic: Christianity
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Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.
Topic: Communication
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Topic: Conceit
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Topic: Confession
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Topic: Confession
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Topic: Contradiction
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Topic: Cynic
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Topic: Cynicism
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Topic: Discontent
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Topic: Disgrace
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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.
Topic: Education
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Topic: Education
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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.
Topic: Education
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Topic: Enemy
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Topic: Excellence
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Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.
Topic: Excess
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Topic: Experience
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Topic: Experience
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
Topic: Exploration
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
Topic: Extravagance
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Topic: Failure
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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Topic: Faith
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Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.
Topic: Faithfulness
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Topic: Famous Last Words
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Topic: Fantasy
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A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Topic: Fashion
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Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Topic: Forgiveness
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Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.
Topic: Forgiveness
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Topic: Genius
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Topic: Goodness
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Topic: Gossip
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Topic: Heartbreak
Source: None
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