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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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