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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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