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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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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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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure perhaps I should check it.
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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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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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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A mutual misunderstanding.
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Be happy, be happy you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
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