I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
王尔德
I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
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I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that when I ask for a watercress sandwich I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations.
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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Time is a waste of money.
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Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
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One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad Americans die they go to America.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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