Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

-- Oscar Wilde

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

-- Oscar Wilde

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-- Oscar Wilde

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

-- Oscar Wilde

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I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.

-- Oscar Wilde

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