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Most people are other people.

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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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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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