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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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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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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance
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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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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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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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