A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.Oscar Wilde
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own.
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A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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