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    Oscar Wilde
    “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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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 think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: children, humor, paraphrased, parents
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humour
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Youth is wasted on the young.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no sin except stupidity.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
    tags: sin-stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: procrastination
    864 likes



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