"We are specially designed to appeal to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”
“Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.”
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“When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.”
“I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!”
“A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.”
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“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
“One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.”
“In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.”