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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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