How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that! – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 2

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1. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
2. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally
3. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
4. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
5. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
6. Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
7. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
8. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
9. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
10. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
11. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
12. Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
13. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
14. I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
15. I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
16. If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
17. In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
18. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
19. Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
20. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
21. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
22. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
23. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

24. Talent borrows and genius steals