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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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The secret of life is in art.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
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