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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -
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Oscar Wilde
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Top 5 quotes from Oscar Wilde
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
"Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
Top 5 quotes from Quotations
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
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