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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.
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