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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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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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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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