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Oscar Wilde: If you pretend...

Oscar Wilde: If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the...

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Oscar Wilde: No publisher should...

Oscar Wilde: No publisher should...

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the...

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Oscar Wilde: The advantage of...

Oscar Wilde: The advantage of...

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Source: Lord Henry, in...

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Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Source: Lady Markby, in An...

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Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than...

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Oscar Wilde: Examinations, sir, are...

Oscar Wilde: Examinations, sir, are...

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is...

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Oscar Wilde: Fathers should be...

Oscar Wilde: Fathers should be...

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: It often happens...

Oscar Wilde: It often happens...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude...

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Oscar Wilde: I adore simple...

Oscar Wilde: I adore simple...

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: You should study...

Oscar Wilde: You should study...

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the...

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Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

Source: Referring to Max...

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Oscar Wilde: All women become...

Oscar Wilde: All women become...

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

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Oscar Wilde: In married life...

Oscar Wilde: In married life...

In married life three is company and two is none.

Source: The Importance of Being...

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Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live and lie...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live and lie...

Live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sunset and evening...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sunset and evening...

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out a...

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The voice of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The voice of...

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

Source: In the Valley of the...

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