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Oscar Wilde Quotes: It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
         

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.


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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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