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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

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

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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. – H. L. Mencken

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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A man in public life expects to be sneered at — it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself. – Charles Dickens

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