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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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