Today's prompt list: Carnation Green
Theme: Quotes 1. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? 2. To lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. 3. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 4. I have nothing to declare except my genius. 5. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. 6. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 7. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance. 8. Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. 9. Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. 10. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. 11. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 12. I can resist everything except temptation. 13. Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. 14. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 15. When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong. 16. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. 17. Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. 18. The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. 19. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. 20. I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde epigrams
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