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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.»
«It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it»
«What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
intellectual, mind, motion, sphere
«Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.»
«Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Common sense,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
common mistake, common sense, creeping, creep in, creep up, crept, late, nowadays, regrets, sort, sort of, Too late
«The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He s»
«The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer»
«Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crime, modern, parent, starvation
«If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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duties, get rid of, interest, make it, pleasures, property, rich, rid, rid of, unbearable
«Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
arguments, avoided, convincing, vulgar
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