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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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 like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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