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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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Dublin city
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.
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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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The weather still continues charming.
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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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