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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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 war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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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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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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