I am not young enough to know everything.
OSCAR WILDETo lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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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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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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