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
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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
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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The thoroughly well-informed man — that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
