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Useful Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
- I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by…
- There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
- The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
- No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.…
- Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
- Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."…
- I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live…
- We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
- What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling…
- What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not…
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