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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

~Oscar Wilde

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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