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Proper Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The only proper intoxication is conversation.
- It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
- The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
- The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above…
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
- To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any…
- The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always…
- The proper school to learn art is not life but art
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