Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDESome things are more precious because they don’t last long.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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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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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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