The two weak points in our age are its want of principle and its want of profile.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Everything must come to one out of one's own nature.
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Private information is practically the source of every large, modern fortune.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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Ideas are dangerous things. Reality is better: it hurts one, but it is worth more.
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All thoughts are immoral. Their true essence lies in destruction. Think of something and you kill it. Nothing survives if it is thought.
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