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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I walk the world in wonder.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
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Prism! Where is that baby?
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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