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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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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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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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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
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