Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
From Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
There is no sin except stupidity.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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