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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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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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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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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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