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Date Posted: 2/11/10 19:18:11
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I wouldn't call Big Issue a trash mag--theres a good cut and paste of Oscar Wilde==in issue 366===Jan 1st 2011===26/10/2010 to 8/11/2010
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet [more author details]
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Genius is born--not paid.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
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