One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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About Oscar Wilde

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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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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

All art is quite useless.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

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Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

—A. J. Liebling

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

—Pamela Hansford Johnson

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