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Oscar Wilde Quotes: The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
         

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.


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Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.



Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.



Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.



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

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

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