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«He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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diminish, intensified, intensifies, intensify
«Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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anarchy, betray, clamorous, demagogue, demagogues, obey, rule of, The Anarchy, The Kiss
«Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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distinct, fashioned, for instance, instance, nowadays, old fashioned, old hand, provincialism, sunset, sunsets, talks, temperament
«We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.»
«Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf»
«The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.»
«It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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brickbat, developed, greatly, industrious, journalist, mightier, offensive, paving, paving stone, pen, public servant, regretted, sakes, servant, sought
«With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized»
«Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.»
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