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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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The unread is always better than the unreadable.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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