Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.Oscar Wilde
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary
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The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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