Oscar Wilde

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"There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us."	Quotations
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."	Money
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."	Money
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."	Marriage
"A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position."	Men
"There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us."	Miscellaneous
"Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same."	Marriage
"True friends stab you in the front."	Government, Friends
"History is merely gossip."	Economics, History
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."	Success, Insults
"Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres."	Art
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."	Anti-God, Attitude
"True friends stab you in the front."	Friendship
"A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection."	Art
"God and other artists are always a little obscure."	Art
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."	Art
"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."	Age
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."	Quotations
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."	Wisdom
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