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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Truth

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Genius

Public

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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World

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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Man

Past

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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Gods

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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Americans

Paris

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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Nothing

True friends stab you in the front.

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Friends

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.