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• Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
• Either they go, or I do. -- Oscar Wilde, of his new bedroom curtains (attrib.), 1900
• Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
  One or the other of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- in Frank Harris Oscar Wilde...
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Critic as Artist" (1891)...
• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• You ought to be a doctor," he said to Turner, "as you always want people to do what they don't want to.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- 28 November 1900, two days before his death, -- when he was already rather ill....
• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens without laughing.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  - Oscar Wilde...