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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#2

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

tags: age

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#3

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#4

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#5

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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#6

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: brain, library

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#7

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

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#8

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: god, humor, money

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#9

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

tags: horticulture, puns

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#10

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#11

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay

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#12

“Time doth flit; oh shit.”
― Dorothy Parker

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#13

“So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: bad-reviews

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#14

“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: spring-humor

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#15

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

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#16

“They misunderestimated me.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb, gibberish

199 likes

#17

“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”
― George W. Bush

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#18

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb

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#19

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: patience, perseverance

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#20

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”
― Margaret Thatcher

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#21

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: accomplishment, achievement, challenge

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