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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
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Genius lasts longer than beauty
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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