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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only faith, but on one side only devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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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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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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