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Quote by Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. – Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde

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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. – Jose Saramago

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