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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Religions die when they are proved true, science is the record of dead religions.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last recourse of those who know not how to dream.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The old believe everything; the middleaged suspect everything; the young know everything.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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The only difference between the saint and sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
| Oscar Wilde | 
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