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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
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Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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We have quite the same ideas. No I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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