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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married by then it was too late'
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
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