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#1

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: past

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“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: fear, future, gratitude, love, past, present

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“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: future, past

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#4

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, past

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#5

“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
― Rupaul

tags: humor, money, past, present, sins, thought, truth

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#6

“I dance like I have a chip on my shoulder. I dance salsa.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#7

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#8

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
― Milton Friedman

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#9

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#10

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#11

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

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#12

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

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#13

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: love

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#14

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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#15

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, humour

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#16

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste

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#17

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#18

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

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#20

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

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#21

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram, humor, men, women

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#22

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks

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#23

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humour

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#24

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#25

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

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#26

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed-no-source

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#28

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

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#29

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

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#30

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult

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