{"id":4292,"date":"2015-03-17T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2015-03-18T03:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:30:29","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/happy-st-patricks-day-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day&#8230; <em>redux.<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4293\" title=\"St_Patrick's_Day_Oscar_Wilde\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/St_Patricks_Day_Oscar_Wilde.jpg\" alt=\"St_Patrick's_Day_Oscar_Wilde\" width=\"437\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Dublin, Ireland<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a <em>hearty and happy <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Patrick's_Day\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day<\/a><\/span><\/em> to friends far and near. Few better ways to mark the day, methinks, than with a selection of quotables by the eminent Irish writer, poet, and aesthete Oscar (Fingal O&#8217;Flahertie Wills) Wilde\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude.<br \/>\nIt makes the whole world kin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">A poet can survive everything but a misprint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Always forgive your enemies\u2014<em>nothing<\/em> annoys them so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Children begin by loving their parents;<br \/>\nafter a time they judge them;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Experience is one thing you can&#8217;t get for nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">One should always be in love.<br \/>\nThat is the reason one should never marry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Some cause happiness <em>wherever<\/em> they go;<br \/>\nothers <em>whenever<\/em> they go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Work is the curse of the drinking classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Who, being loved, is poor?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin, Ireland Here\u2019s a hearty and happy St. Patrick\u2019s Day to friends far and near. Few better ways to mark the day, methinks, than with a selection of quotables by the eminent Irish writer, poet, and aesthete Oscar (Fingal O&#8217;Flahertie Wills) Wilde\u2026 In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. 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