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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
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“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
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“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
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“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
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“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
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“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
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“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
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“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
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“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
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“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
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“Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.”
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“Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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“I am not young enough to know everything.”
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“I am not young enough to know everything.”
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
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“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
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“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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“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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“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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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
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“Who, being loved, is poor?”
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“Who, being loved, is poor?”
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“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
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“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
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“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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“No good deed goes unpunished.”
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“No good deed goes unpunished.”
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“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success”
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“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success”
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