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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
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