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Most people are other people.

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
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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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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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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