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Oscar Wilde Quotes: What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
         

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.


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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.



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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.



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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.

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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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.



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.

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



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

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





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