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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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We have quite the same ideas. No I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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