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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.

Oscar Wilde

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDE

Power Reality Sex World
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDE

Character Choose Enemy Friendship Goodness
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
OSCAR WILDE

One Liner Surrender Temptation
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
OSCAR WILDE

Change Gold History World Writing
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDE

Book Determination Help Reading
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Character Identity Mimicry Opinion Passion People
I am not young enough to know everything.
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Age One Liner Young
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Forgiveness Genius Intelligence People Tolerance Wonderful
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
OSCAR WILDE

Change Fashion Tolerance Ugly
You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
OSCAR WILDE

Car Clothes Couple Hear Love Romantic Sing Song
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDE

Book Care Reading Writing
To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Careless Lose Misfortune Parents
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE

Book Enjoyment Reading
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
OSCAR WILDE

Exercise Funny Humour Respect World Youth
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.
OSCAR WILDE

Beautiful Death Earth Forgiveness Life Lying Peace Silence
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
OSCAR WILDE

Dominate Emotions Enjoyment Inspirational Mercy

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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