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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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Where your life leads you, you must go
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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