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Yes," he continued, "that is one of the great secrets of life. 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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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: Irish

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.

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