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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If

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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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. – Oscar Wilde

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. – Ovid

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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