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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
Oscar Wilde
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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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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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