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Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
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Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.



The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

I can resist anything but temptation.

We΄re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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