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I never read a book I must review it prejudices you so.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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