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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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