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Good Society Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
- For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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