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

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
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Divorces are made in heaven.
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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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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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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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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic life under a bad government is always so.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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