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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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