"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.“
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
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