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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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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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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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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins! I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. That may be, but the muffins are the same!
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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