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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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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Genius lasts longer than beauty
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Don't give a woman advice one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
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