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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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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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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.
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Life is too short to learn German
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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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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