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Relation Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England…
- The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
- I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults…
- 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…
- Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we…
- To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
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- We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. — Jean Baudrillard
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