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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious. Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense. Nobody ever does.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins! I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. That may be, but the muffins are the same!
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I have a simple taste, only the best.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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