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Duty Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
- If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
- If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid…
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
- What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Duty is what one expects from others.
- The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
- JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
- The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of…
- My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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