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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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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
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Most people are other people.
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I never read a book I must review it prejudices you so.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris Where do bad Americans go? They stay in America
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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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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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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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