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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Oscar Wilde |
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One can survive everything nowadays except death.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lip.
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Oscar Wilde |
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Oscar Wilde |
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She is not a subject.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Good kings are the enemies of democracy.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Heaven is a despotism. I shall be at home there.
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Oscar Wilde |
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There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
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Oscar Wilde |
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When a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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Oscar Wilde |
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E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Oscar Wilde |
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Oscar Wilde |
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Action ... is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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Oscar Wilde |
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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Oscar Wilde |
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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Oscar Wilde |
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I can resist everything except temptation.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Oscar Wilde |
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde |
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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Oscar Wilde |
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Oscar Wilde |
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Oscar Wilde |