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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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