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• The basis for optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde
• Biography: One of the terrors of death.
• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell by Dickens without laughing.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• 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....
• Either they go, or I do. -- Oscar Wilde, of his new bedroom curtains (attrib.), 1900
• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde
• Punctuality is the thief of time. -- Oscar Wilde