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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
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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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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
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