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Oscar Wilde Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Birthday: October 16

Death: November 30

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Love, Men, People, Being Faithful, Lord Henry, Faithless

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