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History is only gossip.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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