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«Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.»
«His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.»
«It is he who has broken the bond of marriage, not I. I only break its bondage.»
«From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Literature
| Keywords:
drops, Kipling, point of view, reporter, vulgarity
«If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dinner table, richer, sanctified
«In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped»
«A cynic is someon who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.»
«Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.»
«In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.»
«The vilest deeds like poison-weeds- Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man - That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - And the Warden is Despair»
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