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Nor Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of…
- In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the…
- I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious…
- The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
- Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is…
- Relations are simply a tediouspack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
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- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
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