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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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