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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

~Oscar Wilde

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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