Oscar Wilde Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Modern Journalism Quotes

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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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 one's vinegar.

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