“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”

Oscar Wilde

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738 Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
2564 “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
1293 “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
1679 I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
677 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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