As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde in The Canterville Ghost (1882)
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
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America
(Francis Scott Key)
Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
Gallantly streaming?
America, America, America
America, America, America
And the rocket's red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Oh, say, does that star
Spangled banner yet wave
Over the land of the free
And the home of the brave!
America, America, America
America, America, America
America, America, America
America, America, America
America, America, America
America, America
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Batman Combats Oscar Wilde
“Are you serious? ” Frederick asked.
“Yes, Oscar Wilde, the writer”, George Batman said. “We had a conversation in the park.”
“Oh”, said Frederick. “Is he not dead? ”
“We had a conversation in the park”, Batman said.
“I see”, said Frederick.
“You remember that in The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde argues that books cannot be moral or immoral, only well-written or badly written”, Batman commented.
“So? ”
“Well, I disagreed.”
“And why is that? ” Frederick inquired.
“Look. Wilde confuses content with style. A book with a moral message can either fail or excel in its stylistic presentation, and so can a book with immoral content.”
“I see”, said Frederick. “So what happened? ”
“Nothing special”, Batman said. “We continued to argue. I told Oscar that I am not impressed with some of his witty dictums.”
“Oh”, Frederick said. “What did Wilde say? ”
“He wanted to hear examples”, Batman said.
“Did you give him? ”
“Yes, of course. I started with the ‘The truth is rarely pure, and never simple’, from The Importance of Being Earnest.”
“What is wrong with that? ” Frederick asked.
“I told Wilde that his purified statement is self-contradictory because it is so simple that it cannot be true”.
“I see”, Frederick said. “What else? ”
“Well”, said Batman, “I also told him that I disagreed with the aphorism that ‘Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood’. This is a derogatory and false comment on the psychology of women, belittling female intelligence and dignity. Besides, not only that men also want to be loved, but love and understanding can be overlapping as well.”
“What did Wilde say? ”
“I don’t know. He is dead”.
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I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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