"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

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

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."

Wilde, Oscar on teacher
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Wilde, Oscar on
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"Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world."

Aldington, Richard on nationalities and nationalism   

"It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it."

Camus, Albert on nationalities and nationalism
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"Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves."

Mazzini, Giuseppe on nationalities and nationalism   

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

Orwell, George on nationalities and nationalism
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"Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him."

Shaw, George Bernard on nationalities and nationalism   

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow."

Miller, Emily on new year   

"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage   

"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it."

Wilde, Oscar on women   

"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."

Wilde, Oscar on present   

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on prejudice
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"Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men."

Wilde, Oscar on bachelor   

"I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering."

Wilde, Oscar on autobiography   

"Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"Skepticism is the beginning of Faith."

Wilde, Oscar on skepticism   

"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."

Wilde, Oscar on perfection
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"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."

Wilde, Oscar on maturity
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Wilde, Oscar on misers and misery
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"Experience is the name we give to our mistakes."

Wilde, Oscar on mistakes
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