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3 years ago

… it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.

Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast


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2 years ago

I have always been of the opinion that consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative...

Oscar Wilde

When one's unable to have anything beyond their practical reality, to repeat those practical realities day after day, with ongoing time more and more often, is the only way of forcedly convincing their subconsciousness that they are, indeed, alive, and living with any purpose.

Emily Yvonne


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2 years ago

"It is viable to be benevolent and rational at the same time, in fact, it is sorely dangerous to be one without the other."

Emily Yvonne


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3 years ago

"Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,

But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea."

-Translation of Plato by Michael R. Burch


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