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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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