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Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote or quoted:
>"Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical" - Sebastian Melmoth

  At that time, when I was watching "Clockwork Orange" for the
  first time, and probably was still a child, I was also an
  active amateur astronomer. Of course, I loved

|We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act III.

  Wilde is certainly the greatest aphorist.

|What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and
|the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892, Act IIIA

|The only thing that sustains one through life is the
|consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else,
|and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"

|The only thing worse than being talked about is not being
|talked about.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

|Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but
|it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's
|success. 
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)