We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.Oscar Wilde
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Oscar Wilde
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Oscar Wilde
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