Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and...

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what...

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who...

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who...

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives....

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are...

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that...

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other...

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other...

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can...

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can...

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

We do not own this place, we are just passengers

We do not own this place, we are just passengers

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you...

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you...