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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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