I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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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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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

—G. K. Chesterton

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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

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