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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Most people are other people.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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I never read a book I must review it prejudices you so.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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To define is to limit.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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