It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDEWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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