Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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