Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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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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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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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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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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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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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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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.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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