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    Willie Nelson
    “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
    ― Willie Nelson
    tags: animals, birds, cheese, competition, mice, timing, worms
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81811 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #6
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
    3863 likes

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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: classic-insult
    762 likes

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  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: inspirational, oscar-wilde
    513 likes

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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
    4504 likes

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    Aphra Behn
    “There is no sinner like a young saint.”
    ― Aphra Behn
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  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: sin, temptation
    845 likes

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  • #16
    Mae West
    “To err is human - but it feels divine.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: risque, sin
    455 likes

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  • #17
    Billy Joel
    “I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
    ― Billy Joel
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  • #18
    Charles Frazier
    “He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
    ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
    194 likes

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  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: sin, vanity
    115 likes

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  • #20
    Dean Koontz
    “In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.”
    ― Dean Koontz
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  • #21
    Victor Hugo
    “Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: eyes, gluttony, sin
    162 likes

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  • #22
    J.J. McAvoy
    “She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and ate the damn thing just to use it as a coat. She’s a beast.
    ~Liam C.”
    ― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
    tags: beast, innocent, little-lamb
    305 likes

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    William Golding
    “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: beast, hallucination, simon
    488 likes

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    Robin McKinley
    “As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
    ― Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
    tags: beast, beauty, beauty-and-the-beast, love, reasoning, trust
    130 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: animals, authority, beast, boldness, conquering, courage, courage-in-life, fierceness, inspirational, lion, man, nobility, noble, strength, uniqueness
    127 likes

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  • #26
    Veronica Roth
    “Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: beast, freedom, humanity, life
    71 likes

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  • #27
    Kohta Hirano
    “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
    ― Kouta Hirano
    tags: crying, desperation, good-and-bad, good-and-evil, grief, hopelessness, humanity, life, loneliness, man-vs-monster, sadness, tears, transformation
    132 likes

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  • #28
    Christine de Pizan
    “[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
    tags: burdens, eyes, grief, hope, hopelessness, light, oppression, sadness, salvation, sorrows, subjection
    88 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: childhood, psychology
    1667 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    1766 likes



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