When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

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Working hard feels good. Of course it's exhausting and stressful and causes you to miss a party or two, but at the end of the day it is so rewarding. One of the best feelings in the world is when you know that luck didn't play a role in your success. Doing work eliminates the need for luck.

—Lilly Singh in How to Be a Bawse

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

—Kahlil Gibran

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

—Napoleon Hill

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Love is love's reward.

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