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    Oscar Wilde
    “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: paraphrased
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “Man is the most intelligent of animals -- and the most silly.”
    ― Diogenes
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    Jean Cocteau
    “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: cats, home
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    Aldous Huxley
    “To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: dogs
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    George Eliot
    “Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
    ― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
    tags: animals, criticisms, true-friends
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    Jacquelyn Mitchard
    “Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
    ― Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    Josh Billings
    “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: animals, dogs
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
    tags: pets
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