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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Oscar Wilde
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Oscar Wilde
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
Oscar Wilde
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar Wilde
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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