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Quote by Oscar Wilde
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde

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Cooking, Culinary
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

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great
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Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin

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good

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly. – Marilyn Monroe

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good

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. – Aristotle

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good

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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good

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. – Maupassant

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I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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