Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.
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Sebastian Melmoth
Birth Name:
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
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Oscar O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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