Eight Oscar Wilde gems for modern life

Including how to eat muffins.

Eight Oscar Wilde gems for modern life

Today marks Oscar Wilde’s 160th birthday. Quite apart from being one of Ireland’s greatest writers of all time, and his infamy for one of the most shocking trials of the era, Wilde was also famous for his ability to condense pearls of wisdom into short and snappy one-liners.

That, of course, was all in the late 1800s - but Wilde’s advice is still perfectly applicable to modern life. Here's eight we feel apply just as well know as they did in the late 1800s.

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