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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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The sin was mine I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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