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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

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The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. – Oscar Wilde

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn – Lucille Ball

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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. – Oscar Wilde

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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