| History is merely gossip. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| A poet can survive everything but a misprint. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. |
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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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| Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Duty is what one expects from others. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. |
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- Oscar Wilde |
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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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- Oscar Wilde |
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