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Lose Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
- To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
- I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep…
- Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
- Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.
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