Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Author: Oscar Wilde

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.