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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 girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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