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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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Most people are other people.
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. 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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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
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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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Who, being loved, is poor?
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