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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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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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