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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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The secret of life is in art.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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