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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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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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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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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.
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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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