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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employ

The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde

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Age
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. – Oscar Wilde

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Aristocracy
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. – Oscar Wilde

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Science
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Other Quotes from
Torture
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The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Torture

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen

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Torture

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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Torture

Ive already told you: the only way to a womans heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. – Marquis De Sade

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Torture

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To be admitted to Natures hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. – Henry David Thoreau

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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. – Norman Cousins

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