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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
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Women have a much better time than men in this world there are far more things forbidden to them.
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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I am happy in my prison of passion
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