Oscar Wilde: I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me fa — Oscar Wilde

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. — Oscar Wilde
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. — Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. — Oscar Wilde
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde
What is the difference between a taxidermist & a tax-collector? The taxidermist — Mark Twain
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. — Mark Twain
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenn — François de La Rochefoucauld
'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction . — Lord Byron
We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it. — George W. Bush
But there is no veil like light—no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth. — George MacDonald