It is very difficult sometimes to keep.. Oscar Wilde

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It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

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Oscar Wilde

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: Irish

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Yes: the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

She had marred him for a moment, if he had wounded her for an age.

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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.

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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