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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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