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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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I don't like Switzerland it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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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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Prism! Where is that baby?
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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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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Truth is independent of facts always.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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