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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-- Oscar Wilde

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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.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Oh, I love the London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

-- Oscar Wilde

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

-- Oscar Wilde

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