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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Essayist
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Dublin city
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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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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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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