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Puzzles
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others ___ they go.
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To be natural is such a very difficult ___ to keep up.
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Everything in ___, including ___.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing ___ them so much.
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___ were the divinely provided food for those desolate cannibal islands where other food was scarce.
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___ is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a ___, and he will tell you the truth.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his ___.
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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the ___ of nothing.
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Life is too ___ to be taken seriously.
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___ is the thief of time.
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The heart was made to be ___.
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An ___ that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an ___ at all.
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___, the name men give to their mistakes.
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Only the ___ know themselves.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can ___ it.
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A little ___ is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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To love ___ is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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The true ___ of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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The only thing to do with good ___ is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Always borrow money from a ___. He won’t expect it back.
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True friends ___ in the front.
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Dreamers can find their way by ___ and their punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Misfortunes one can endure they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s ___... Ah! There is the sting of life.
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No man is rich enough to buy back ___.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ___.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a ___.
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If nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented ___.
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I never travel without my ___. One should always have something sensational to read.
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Democracy means simply the ___ of the people by the people for the people.
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To get back my ___ I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of ___.
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The pure and simple ___ is rarely pure and never simple.
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___ is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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It is better to have a permanent ___ than to be fascinating.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the ___.
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If you are not too ___, I will wait here for you all my life.
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his ___.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the ___ of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
→ It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
→ With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
→ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
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Pick the quote attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
→ There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
→ Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
→ You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.
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Select the quotation attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
→ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
→ Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
→ Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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One of these may be attributed to Oscar Wilde. Which one?
→ Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language.
→ Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
→ Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
→ It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
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Which one of these belongs to Oscar Wilde?
→ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
→ Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
→ The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
→ Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Oscar Wilde?
→ Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
→ A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
→ What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
→ The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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→ It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
→ You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
→ No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
→ One must be a God to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Oscar Wilde. Which one?
→ Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
→ It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
→ Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
→ Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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→ Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
→ Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
→ There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
→ An idea is an unbreakable toy, free, and sometimes fatal.
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→ In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
→ The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
→ Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
→ Revenge proves its own executioner.
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→ As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
→ The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
→ No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
→ Women should be obscene and not heard.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Oscar Wilde.
→ Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
→ All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
→ The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
→ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Which one should be attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
→ If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
→ Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
→ I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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→ The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
→ Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
→ The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
→ I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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→ It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
→ Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
→ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
→ Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Oscar Wilde.
→ Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
→ Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
→ To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
→ A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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→ If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
→ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
→ We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
→ Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
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→ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
→ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
→ I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
→ Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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One of the following quotes belongs to Oscar Wilde. Pick one.
→ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
→ We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
→ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
→ Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
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→ People living deeply have no fear of death.
→ Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
→ Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
→ Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
→ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
→ The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
→ A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Pick the quote attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
→ Nothing is more unfair than to judge the men of the past by the ideas of the present.
→ When in doubt, tell the truth.
→ I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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→ The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
→ The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
→ Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
→ You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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→ A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
→ Sweet is true love though given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
→ I am pleased to believe that you like the piece almost as much as I do myself.
→ Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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→ If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
→ One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
→ The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
→ The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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→ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
→ Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
→ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
→ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
→ Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else…
→ Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
→ The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Oscar Wilde. Which one?
→ Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
→ Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
→ When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
→ Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
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→ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
→ Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
→ A majority is always better than the best repartee.
→ The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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→ Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
→ It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
→ The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
→ Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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→ Integrity has no need of rules.
→ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
→ The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
→ Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Oscar Wilde.
→ 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.
→ Be quick to praise. People like to praise those who praise them. Be sincere in doing this.
→ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
→ Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
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Which one should be attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ You call it madness, but I call it love.
→ Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
→ I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
→ When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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→ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
→ It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.
→ It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
→ Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
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→ Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
→ People will forget the things you do, and people will forget the things you say. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
→ Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
→ There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
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→ Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
→ To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
→ If we don't end war, war will end us.
→ If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
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→ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
→ If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
→ Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
→ Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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→ To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
→ The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
→ Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
→ Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Oscar Wilde. Pick one.
→ The conscience of an editor is purely decorative.
→ Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.
→ The answer is in the plural and they bounce.
→ A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
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→ A footnote is like running downstairs to answer the doorbell on your wedding night.
→ Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
→ It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
→ The only way to atone for being occasionally a little overdressed is by being always absolutely overeducated.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ If Kitchener was not a great man, he was at least a great poster.
→ One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
→ My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
→ It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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→ I once gave a waiter a tip - I told him never to step off a moving bus.
→ Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
→ When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
→ Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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→ Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
→ Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
→ Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
→ Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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→ It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
→ The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
→ Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
→ Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
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→ Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
→ Comparison is the thief of joy.
→ She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
→ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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→ A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
→ The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
→ We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
→ Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
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→ Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
→ It's too late to prevent the war. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield.
→ My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea.
→ The General was essentially a man of peace, except his domestic life.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Oscar Wilde. Which one?
→ If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
→ It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
→ America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
→ Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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→ It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
→ Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
→ I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
→ At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
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→ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
→ Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
→ One can survive everything nowadays except death.
→ The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
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→ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
→ If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
→ I can resist everything except temptation.
→ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
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→ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
→ As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
→ There are too many people, and too few human beings.
→ The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
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→ I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
→ Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
→ I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
→ Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
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→ Every sin is the result of collaboration.
→ In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
→ A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
→ Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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→ 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.
→ I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
→ The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
→ I am a part of all that I have met.
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→ I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
→ It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
→ As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it’s leaning against the right building.
→ Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone, but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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→ The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
→ The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
→ They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
→ Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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→ What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
→ Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
→ By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
→ I am never in during the afternoon, except when I am confined to the house by a sharp attack of penury.
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→ One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
→ My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
→ It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
→ The only way to atone for being occasionally a little overdressed is by being always absolutely overeducated.
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→ Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
→ Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
→ Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow’s too lazy to form an opinion.
→ Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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→ Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit card gas.
→ I have nothing to declare except my genius.
→ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
→ With the truth you can be quite causal, with lying you must be very exact.
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→ Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
→ One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
→ As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
→ Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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→ Time is a waste of money.
→ Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
→ A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
→ There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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→ 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.
→ The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
→ Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
→ The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
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→ A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
→ The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
→ Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.
→ The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
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→ I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
→ Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
→ A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
→ One can survive everything nowadays except death.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
→ All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
→ We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
→ Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Oscar Wilde. Which one?
→ A cult is a religion with no political power.
→ Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
→ If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
→ There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Oscar Wilde?
→ Action is the foundational key to all success.
→ It is the best play I ever slept through.
→ This is the true joy in life: being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
→ There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Oscar Wilde.
→ Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
→ Genius is born, not paid.
→ The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
→ My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
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Looks like Oscar Wilde is the author of one of these.
→ Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
→ Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
→ The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
→ Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Oscar Wilde.
→ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
→ The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.
→ I am pleased to believe that you like the piece almost as much as I do myself.
→ You lose a lot of time hating people.
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Which one should be attributed to Oscar Wilde?
→ A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
→ Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
→ Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
→ People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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