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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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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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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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