I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
Tag: Oscar Wilde
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… Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.