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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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History is merely gossip
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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