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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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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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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is equally bad.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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