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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

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 England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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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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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins! I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. That may be, but the muffins are the same!
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Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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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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