Re: Oscar Wilde's witticisms
(Oscar Wilde's witticisms - part 20)
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
(upon being told the cost of an operation)
(Concluded)
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