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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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