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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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 wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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