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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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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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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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