"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Schulz, Charles M. on worry
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"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public."

Wilde, Oscar on flirting
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely."

Wilde, Oscar on function
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to."

Wilde, Oscar on hospitality
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"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich."

Stein, Gertrude on desire   

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

Stein, Gertrude on genius   

"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction   

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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

Wilde, Oscar on fathers
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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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."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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