He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.Oscar Wilde
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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