Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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