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To Be Good, According To The Vulgar Standard Of Goodness, Is Obviously Quite Easy.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously
quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a
certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for
middle-class respectability.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money.
But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money....
A certain amount of opposition is a help, not a hindrance.
Kites rise against the wind, not with it....
Creating computer software is always a demanding and painstaking process -- an exercise in logic, clear expression, and almost fanatical attention to detail.
It requires intelligence, dedication, and an enormous amount of hard work....
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business.
Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. -- Oscar Wilde...
Laws are Certain... Justice is Not!
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)...
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard.
If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth....
You may be redneck... if you refer to certain animals as "good eatin'!
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.
-- Aristotle...