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Oscar Wilde sayings
 
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Science is the record of dead religions.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
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The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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The only thing one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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