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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
-Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He also wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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Phenomena that happen outside of us don’t cause happiness. They might be correlated with happiness but it’s not a cause-and-effect relationship.
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