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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

Oscar Wilde

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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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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is equally bad.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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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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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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