The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

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738 Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
2562 “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.”
1678 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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