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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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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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I walk the world in wonder.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
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A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
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