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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
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