I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

As one reads history… one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

—Jessie Sampter

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

—Albert Einstein

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