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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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