It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good… - Oscar Wilde

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.

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Birth Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Alternative Names: Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde • Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

What of Art?
-It is a malady. — Love?
-An Illusion. — Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief. — You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. — What are you?
-To define is to limit.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde

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