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“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated (1894), Oscar Wilde

“To say something memorable before you die you either have to say something memorable and then completely shut up until you die or you have to say something memorable once every five minutes.”

—Guy Browning

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”

—Somerset Maugham

“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated (1894), Oscar Wilde

“Liberalism is about embracing the shame of your identity. Conservatism is about denying it.”

—ha-Satan

To be left alone with one’s thoughts is no better than being in a room full of one’s worst critics. Except the critics are more likely to apologize for what they say.

Reading epigrams always makes me feel like I've been terribly productive

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“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”

—Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams

“i'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time”

Hilaire Belloc

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

—Sigmund Freud

“Although beauty may be skin deep, many have drowned there.”

—Richard Cruickshanks 
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