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Small: I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly
Oscar Wilde
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
Oscar Wilde
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The critic has to educate the public the artist has to educate the critic
Oscar Wilde
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life
Oscar Wilde
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations w
Oscar Wilde
"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"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray
Oscar Wilde
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will
Oscar Wilde
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is th
Oscar Wilde
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civi
Oscar Wilde
"If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their
Oscar Wilde
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Charity creates a multitude of sins
Oscar Wilde
"Charity creates a multitude of sins"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live
Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards
Oscar Wilde
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one
Oscar Wilde
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is
Oscar Wilde
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative
Oscar Wilde
"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, th
Oscar Wilde
"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dict
Oscar Wilde
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever
Oscar Wilde
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying
Oscar Wilde
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
Oscar Wilde
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals
Oscar Wilde
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance
Oscar Wilde
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves
Oscar Wilde
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is what you read when you dont have to that determines what you will be when you cant help it
Oscar Wilde
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life
Oscar Wilde
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance
Oscar Wilde
"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong
Oscar Wilde
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is
Oscar Wilde
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: When good Americans die they go to Paris
Oscar Wilde
"When good Americans die they go to Paris"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying
Oscar Wilde
"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about
Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The
Oscar Wilde
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anythin
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is no sin except stupidity
Oscar Wilde
"There is no sin except stupidity"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob all authority is equally bad
Oscar Wilde
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love
Oscar Wilde
"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it
Oscar Wilde
"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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