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• Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
  -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earne...
• It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
  It produced a false impression. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• The good ended happily and the bad ended unhappily.
  That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune
  to lose both looks like carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earne...
• On an occaision of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind.
  It becomes a pleasure. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne...
• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
  Moral people, as they are termed, are simply beasts....
• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
  -- Oscar Wilde...