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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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We Irish will never achieve anything but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The unread is always better than the unreadable.
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