Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, the world would have been different.
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If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible.Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
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