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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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 like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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