The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.