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#226

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

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#227

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

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#228

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

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#229

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents

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#230

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#231

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#232

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: morality, philosophy

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#233

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#234

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks

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#235

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#236

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-work

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#237

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#238

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox

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#239

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#240

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#241

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

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#243

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#244

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: advice-for-daily-living, carpe-diem

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#245

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: advice-for-daily-living, financial-advice

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#246

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
― E.B. White

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#247

“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
― E.B. White

tags: bias

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#248

“Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.”
― E. B. White

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#249

“Never hurry and never worry!”
― E.B. White, Charlotte窶冱 Web

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#250

“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte窶冱 Web

tags: character, the-writing-process

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#254

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
― Jack London

tags: bluffing, making-do, poker

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#255

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
― Alexandre Dumas

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#256

“If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.”
― Steven Wright

tags: first, funny, skydiving

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#258

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom

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#259

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#260

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success

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