"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on Advice
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on Motives
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"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar on Illusion
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on Humankind
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"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

Wilde, Oscar on Humankind
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."

Wilde, Oscar on Human Nature
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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."

Wilde, Oscar on Housework
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on Happiness
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on Gossip
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."

Wilde, Oscar on Goodness
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

Wilde, Oscar on America
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

Wilde, Oscar on Age and Aging
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on Forgiveness
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on Excellence
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on Discontent
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness."

Wilde, Oscar on Parents and Parenting
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