World Quotes

• "Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Popularity is the crown of laurel that the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs."
  By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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• "Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
  By: William Allen White
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• "There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign."
  By: Theodore White
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• "Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason."
  By: John Wesley
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• "One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
  By: H.G. Wells
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• "Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
  By: Simone Weil
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• "Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else."
  By: Simone Weil
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