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Oscar Wilde

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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."	Talking
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."	Education
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."	Miscellaneous
"Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."	Love
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."	Miscellaneous
"A kiss may ruin a human life."	Miscellaneous
"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."	Time
"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style."	Miscellaneous
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."	Clever Jabs
"I can resist everything except temptation."	Miscellaneous
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is mans original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."	Miscellaneous
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."	Genius
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."	Miscellaneous
"I am not young enough to know everything."	Youth
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."	Debate, Wisdom
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."	Miscellaneous
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."	Miscellaneous
"To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."	Love
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."	Acting
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people."	Democracy

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