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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde
Devotion
Man
Nothing
Woman
World
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Books
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
Sin
Stupidity
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Authority
Mob
Necessity
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde
Love
People
Emotions
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
Blame
Luxury
Right
Self
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
People
Nothing
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Temptation
Yield
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
Play
World
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
Life
Being
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
People
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
Sister
Expression
Machine
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Truth
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Mystery
World
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
Selling
Nothing