"Don't use big words. They mean so..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Don't use big words. They mean so little.
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.”
“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”
More on Communication
“The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.”
“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.”
“Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.”
More on Simplicity
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
“Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.”