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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
    “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
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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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
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: life-surrealistic
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    Oscar Wilde
    “No good deed goes unpunished.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: selfishness
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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
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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
    “A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
    ― 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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    Oscar Wilde
    “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram, humor, men, women
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: advice, epigram, humor
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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
    “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: stupidity
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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
    “One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor, love, marriage
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: marriage
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: love, man, woman
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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