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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

~Oscar Wilde

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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All art is quite useless.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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